Sentence examples for famous ancient from inspiring English sources

The implication is that these are the equals of famous ancient buildings on show.

At Twylfontein we stopped to see the famous ancient rock engravings.

Situated near such famous ancient sites as Ephesus and Pergamum and numerous holiday resorts, İzmir has a growing tourist trade.

Babylon is the most famous ancient site occupied as a military base, but it is certainly not the only one.

Our most famous ancient relatives, the Neanderthals trotted across Eurasia some 400,000 to 40,000 years ago.

The most famous ancient Greek panegyrics to survive intact are the Panegyricus (c. 380 bc) and the Panathenaicus (c. 340 bc), both by Isocrates.

Her published writings show her to have acquired a true command of the Bible, a good knowledge of the works of several of the most famous Ancients and of the writings of Shakespeare and Milton.

The US president surprised fellow tourists when he turned up at the world-famous ancient monument in Wiltshire – a visit that was reportedly on his "bucket list" of things to do.

This was the period of the red-figure style, used on the most famous of ancient potteries.

Maithilī, spoken in the old country of Mithilā (Tirhut), was famous from ancient times for its use among scholars, and it still retains many antiquated linguistic forms.

The oak forests, famous in ancient times, have largely been cut, and only naked bedrock remains over much of the interior of the Gargano; the Umbra Forest (mainly beech) is the most famous of the few surviving forest preserves.